Middle East Experience

Azizi Developments has recorded an 8% increase in sales to investors from Saudi Arabia this year compared to 2018
Source: Arabian Business
Full Article: More Saudis investing in Dubai real estate, says developer Azizi

Young people have been taking flight from Daraa and Quneitra in bids to find decent jobs and to avoid having to serve in the Syrian army.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Young Syrians flee Daraa and Quneitra in droves

IQ Fulfillment, the Middle East and North Africa region's first robotic fulfillment centre, has opened in Dubai
Source: Arabian Business
Full Article: Dubai robotic factory to process 12,000 daily orders to support e-commerce

A joint United Nations-Syrian Arab Red Crescent mission has arrived at the Rukban camp, near the Jordanian border, where more than 10,000 people are living in dire conditions, to ask them if they want to go back to the government-held area of Homs province.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Syrians in makeshift displacement camp face ‘impossible choice’

Nakheel Malls has scored a deal with Ahdaaf Sports Club to bring a rooftop football and cricket complex to Dragon Mart
Source: Arabian Business
Full Article: Nakheel adds rooftop sports complex to Dubai shopping mall

Egypt’s Ministry of Religious Endowments is sending clerics to the North Coast, as videos of young people dancing on the beach there have recently surfaced.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Egyptian clerics reach out to vacationing young people

This year's Emirati Women's Day theme, 'Women, Icons of Tolerance', aims to highlight and promote the values of tolerance
Source: Arabian Business
Full Article: Watch: how Emirati women are helping to shape the UAE

Past attempts to encourage Palestinians to voluntarily emigrate have always failed, so time and effort would be better invested in reaching an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement than pursuing a new push by the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for Gaza residents to voluntarily move elsewhere.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Why is Netanyahu reviving Palestinians' ‘willing relocation’?

The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on two networks it says are linked to Iran’s government and military organizations, the Treasury Department said. One of the networks used a
Source: Al Arabiya
Full Article: US sanctions networks connected to Iran’s government, military

The descendants of Ottoman Turks represent an important foothold for Turkey in Libya, but the community is dispersed in various political and military camps, with some even resentful toward Ankara.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Are Libyan Turks Ankara’s Trojan horse?